Caution: Girl Stuff

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by bewitched

I agree that surgery itself is so much better now. My husband is a med-mal defense lawyer, mostly dealing with hospital infection cases. Unfortunately, these days, the infections you get in hospitals can be, and more often than you would expect are, extremely deadly. So that is more where I'm coming from.

Yes, hospitals can be nasty places, however, who does surgery in a hospital anymore? How old fashioned! My partial mastectomy and my appendectomy were both "drive-thru" surgeries. I wasn't even in a hospital but in an outpatient surgery center and was home within 4 hours. If I chose to have reconstruction/augmentation/reduction that would be done in the same setting.

I first thought that was unreasonable, but I see the benefits of "drive thru" surgery now.


On another note, I sure as hell hope I stay within my family tradition of easy menopause because I cannot take estrogen because the cancer I had thrives on it. Sigh.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Yes, hospitals can be nasty places, however, who does surgery in a hospital anymore? How old fashioned!

As he was about to dig in for my vasectomy, my urologist said, "Relax. They do this on street corners in China." La, la, la.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

I don't know a lot about this as my daughter is older and I wasn't privy to chosing her BC.

I'll post for MS - Brandy is a special needs sweetie.

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

No ick factor, just a mess factor that frequently isn't worth the trouble.

But then that's why showers are generally large enough for two.

Funny, just say the word sex and all the men show up. Why they were reading this thread, I'll never guess.

Anyway - What Alex said is right on the money.

Originally Posted by NM

Eww, but mad props for it.

You've never had sex during a woman's period? I'm surprised.

Originally Posted by iSm

There was some damn pheromone that always got me incredibly horny when my last girlfriend was on her period.

Actually, the same thing happens to me. Another good reason to not have periods...though I don't know if I actually retained the drive while ditching the period...hmm.

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I'll post for MS - Brandy is a special needs sweetie.

Oh, I know Brandy!!! I know ~MS~ put a lot in to choosing what she did but I wasn't as fortunate to participate {have a clue?} in what mine did. I just wanted to share what I now know from what she has experienced. It was rather scary. Luckily her tests came back safe.

I do believe it is the same kind and I am curious~ was my daughters doctor misinformed?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

You've never had sex during a woman's period? I'm surprised.

At least as I use the term*, "red wings" are more specific than sex during a period. Different level of ick factor for many people. At least as we used it, it was performing oral sex on a woman during her period.




*Glad to know the phrase has some general currency. I've never heard it used outside of the people I went to junior high with so I had decided it was a regionalism.

[NirvanaMan]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

You've never had sex during a woman's period? I'm surprised.

Why does that surprise you?

And yes, I have.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by NirvanaMan

Why does that surprise you?

And yes, I have.

Well, then it doesn't surprise me. I thought it fairly common.